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THE USE AND CHALLENGES OF PRECISE TIME IN ELECTRIC POWER SYNCHROPHASOR SYSTEMS

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Author(s)

Marc A. Weiss, Alison Silverstein, Francis Tuffner, Ya-Shian Li-Baboud

Abstract

Today, the principal way that power system owners and operators use precision timing is for fault recording, protection system operation and in synchrophasor applications. Synchrophasor applications have among the most stringent precision time and time interval requirements due to high frequency reporting and the wide area distribution of phasor measurement units. This paper will describe the analysis of precision time requirements for some principal synchrophasor applications, and outline some of the measures that the Time Synchronization Task Force of the North American Synchrophasor Initiative (NASPI) and complementary industry standards activities in order to address the broad challenge of improving timing usage and reliability by electric industry users.
Proceedings Title
Proceedings of the 2017 International Technical Meeting of The Institute of Navigation
Conference Dates
January 30-February 2, 2017
Conference Location
Monterey, CA, US
Conference Title
2017 Precision Time and Time Interval Meeting
Pub Type
Conferences

Keywords

precision time, synchrophasors
Information technology

Citation

Weiss, M. , Silverstein, A. , Tuffner, F. and Li-Baboud, Y. (2017), THE USE AND CHALLENGES OF PRECISE TIME IN ELECTRIC POWER SYNCHROPHASOR SYSTEMS, Proceedings of the 2017 International Technical Meeting of The Institute of Navigation, Monterey, CA, US (Accessed October 13, 2025)

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Created January 29, 2017, Updated October 12, 2021
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